Psalms 86:11-13

11 ¹Teach me Your way, O LORD; I will walk in Your truth; ²Unite my heart to fear Your name.

12 I will ³give thanks to You, O Lord my God, with all my heart, And will glorify Your name forever.

13 For Your lovingkindness toward me is great, And You have ⁴delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

Psalms 86:11-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 86

\\<>\\. The title is the same with the Seventeenth Psalm, and the subject of it is much alike: it was written by David, when in distress, and his life was sought after; very likely when he was persecuted by Saul, and fled from him; so Aben Ezra, Jarchi, and Kimchi: and as he was a type of Christ in his afflictions, as well as in his exalted state, it may not be unfitly applied to him, as it is by some interpreters. The Syriac inscription of it is, ``for David, when he built an house for the Lord; and a prophecy of the calling of the Gentiles; and moreover, a prayer of a peculiar righteous man.'' Theodoret thinks it predicts the siege of Jerusalem by the Assyrians, and Hezekiah's hope in God.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Videos for Psalms 86:11-13

A Morning Prayer by Lysa Terkeurst

Cross References 4

1. Psalms 25:5
2. Jeremiah 32:39
3. Psalms 111:1
4. Psalms 30:3

Footnotes 2

[a]. Lit "lowest Sheol"
[b]. I.e. the nether world